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Originally Posted by pgellis
The big increase in T206 pricing and demand lately has been on rare backs. 6 years ago, I could pick up some mildly rare backs (Cycle 460, Sovereign 460) at not much more than a common back.......today there is a big demand for backs other than SC or Piedmont.
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I have been away from the hobby for a while, but that's exactly what I'm seeing as well - the common backs on vg-ex and below don't seem to have changed much, other than a few oddball cards like the Cobb bat off. What that tells me is that there are still plenty of T206's circulating and if all you care about is the pretty picture on the front, you're good to go (that would be me).
As far as the backs going up, the tough backs were always tough (by definition of scarcity), and people who cared about them in the past were less likely to let go of them than a common back. More collectors means more collectors of tough backs, means less tough backs. We'll find the same thing with commons some day, but I'm hoping that is a long way off still.